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NEW DELHI: Even though the benchmark indices have rallied over 20 per cent so far in the year 2014, analysts at top brokerage firms are of the view that the Indian markets are fairly valued at current levels and there is a lot of room for long-term investors. One way to value a particular market is by looking at its MCap-to-GDP ratio, which essentially is the percentage of GDP that represents stock market value at any given point in time. India's market cap has appreciated 5.3x in the last 10 years and is trading at attractive levels, Motilal Oswal said in a report.

Since its listing on August 25, 2004, Tata Consultancy Services ( TCS ) has spearheaded the Tata Group, given its billing as the company with the largest market capitalisation among the group companies. Thanks to its strong performance and the poor show by group companies across steel, power and telecom sectors, TCS now contributes over 61% to the group's market cap compared with just 33% five years ago. The higher weightage of the company, which is also the nation's largest IT exporter, also means it has largely driven the gain of 19% on an annualised basis in the past five years in the aggregate market cap of the top 10 group companies.

MUMBAI: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the world's most valuable IT services company and the country's biggest software exporter, has become the first Indian company to hit a market cap of over Rs 4 lakh crore (around $60 billion at Friday's exchange rate) in the last five-and-a-half years, thanks to the sharp depreciation of the rupee and revival in the US economy. TCS is also the second company to cross that benchmark in Indian capital market history. The gap between the market capitalisation of TCS and its nearest rival in valuation, Reliance Industries (RIL)

chennai: with the old economy stocks, especially automobiles, finding favour with marketmen, market capitalisation of tvs motor company has crossed the rs 1,000 crore mark on the bse on friday. it is a big gain from rs 162 crore it had at the time of parting ways with suzuki motor in september when the company's stock was quoting around rs 70. with the company announcing a record net profit of rs 23.19 crore for the fourth quarter, the stock moved up by 9.47 per cent to close at rs 471 on the bse, against rs 427 on thursday.

By: Ashutosh R Shyam & Rajesh N Naidu MUMBAI: India may struggle against Australia in cricket and will probably never beat Brazil in football, but is ahead of its two rivals if you rank them on basis of capital market performance. On May 20, the day Narendra Modi was appointed prime minister by president Pranab Mukherjee, India's market cap leapt past Australia, South Korea to become the tenth biggest in the world. The combined market cap of Sensex and Nifty is now $1.42 trillion compared with Australia's $1.40 trillion, Brazil's $1.1 trillion and South Korea's $1.25 trillion, Bloomberg data shows.

MUMBAI: In lacklustre trade last week, six out of top 10 companies added Rs 65,128.41 crore to their total market capitalisation. The country's largest iron ore producer, NMDC , was the biggest gainer among the top 10 Bombay Stock Exchange-listed companies adding Rs 23,550.32 crore to its market cap at Rs 1,89,691 crore last week. It moved up by one notch to the fourth position in the list. Other companies which saw their valuation rising last week were Reliance Industries , NTPC, MMTC, Infosys and TCS. Mukesh Ambani-led RIL maintained numero-uno position and added Rs 2,382.

MUMBAI: The country's top-10 firms added over Rs 39,000 crore to their market capitalisation last week, with Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) gaining the most. The market valuation of ONGC swelled by Rs 18,116 crore, taking its total market cap to Rs 2,40,880 crore in the week ended July 25. Shares of ONGC soared 8.13 per cent to close at Rs 1,126.20 at the end of Friday's trade on the BSE. The total market cap of ONGC stood at Rs 2,22,763 crore during the week ended July 17, 2009.

NEW DELHI: The Indian market has been the best performing market so far in the year 2014 across the globe, adding $0.4 trillion to its market capitalisation since December 2013, which contributed nearly 10 per cent to the rise in the world's market cap. But analysts on the Street see it rising further in a matter of just two years if macros improve and reforms taken by the newly-elected Modi government start taking shape. "India has grown faster in market cap from $1.1 to $1.5 trillion, which can double to $3-3.2 trillion by the end of 2016.

NEW DELHI: IOC has became India's third largest company in terms of market capitalisation, overtaking Hindustan Lever. At close today at the BSE, IOC clocked a market cap of Rs 37,000 crore to occupy the third slot, for the first time, after ONGC and Reliance. HLL, which closed today with a market cap of Rs 35,770 slid to the fourth position. There has been a bull run for IOC in the last few weeks. For the past few days, heavy trading in the IOC scrip has seen the share price move up to Rs 488. Today, however, with the overall market sentiment being low after raids on some leading broking firms, share prices moved southward, in general.

NEW DELHI: IOC has became India's third largest company in terms of market capitalisation, overtaking Hindustan Lever. At close today at the BSE, IOC clocked a market cap of Rs 37,000 crore to occupy the third slot, for the first time, after ONGC and Reliance. HLL, which closed today with a market cap of Rs 35,770 slid to the fourth position. There has been a bull run for IOC in the last few weeks. For the past few days, heavy trading in the IOC scrip has seen the share price move up to Rs 488. Today, however, with the overall market sentiment being low after raids on some leading broking firms, share prices moved southward, in general.